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BY MATT SCHOOLEY The crown fits so well, the Derryfield School boys tennis team doesn’t want to take it off. For the seventh consecutive season, the Cougars won the Class M-S state championship after knocking off topseeded Gilford, 6-3, on May 30. Read More...
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BY GREGOR WALZ Bedford boys tennis cocaptain Courtney Mountifield believed the Bulldogs’ semifinal- round match with Hanover on Saturday, May 30, was the true championship match. “The semifinal should have been the finals because we were the Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY When the Bedford High School girls tennis coach was playing boys high school tennis in Nashua, his teams were frequently bested by West squads packed with Bedford residents. After accepting a teaching position at Bedford High, Peter Gagnon Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY The West boys tennis team’s roller coaster season finally came to a stop, and many of the athletes won’t be around for next year’s ride. The Blue Knights never won consecutive games during a 5-9 campaign, which concluded Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Mallika Prabhakar and Nicole Byer hoped to climb the ladder before their high school tennis careers concluded. The seniors skipped a few rungs in the process. Prabhakar is playing No. 1 singles, and Byer is No. 2 for the struggling Blue Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Sponsored by Indian Head Athletics Facing a vocal opponent in Souhegan’s Nischon Radhakrishon, Bedford High School’s No. 1 boys tennis player, Myles Utell, said little. He let his racquet do the talking. Facing a vocal opponent Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY At an early-season team meeting, Bedford boys tennis head coach Shawna Morley asked her players what their goals were the season. With each hand that went up, the goals became loftier, eventually ending with one player saying his goal Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Bruce Berk said he doesn’t keep track of his Derryfield School boys tennis team’s successes from year to year. Maybe he’s just lost count. The Cougars have reached the state final 15 of the last 18 years, and they Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Winning a state tennis championship is a tough enough task. Six individual players have to do their part, then change their approaches and play doubles – generally immediately following an intense singles match. Now, take Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR He was expecting the call, but he still had his fingers crossed it wouldn’t come. It did. CJ Beck picked up the phone. “Remember that bet you made,” said the voice on the other line. “We didn’t forget.” Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR A team of freshmen and sophomores should not be able to compete against junior- and senior- year opponents. Try telling that to the Bedford High School girls tennis team. The Lady Bulldogs could care less about conventional wisdom. Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Steve Houle and his Lady Blue Knights aren’t happy with last year’s playoff result, and they plan on spending this entire season rectifying it. After a fine 2007, West tennis fell in the Class L semifinals to city rival Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR It was a year of near-misses and so-closes on the 2007 Bedford sports landscape, though there were a few spot-ons mixed in. While dozens of local teams and individuals competed for the top prize in their respective class and/or Read More...
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BY SAPNA PATHAK Leading up to its early season match on Friday, April 20, Shawna Morley needed only three words to get her West’s boys tennis team fired up: Concord vs. West. A simple mention of the longstanding rivalry and Morley’s motivational Read More...
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BY MATT STOUT Terry Wilson laughed after he said it, but the Gilford coach, like many of his peers in Class M-S, isn’t thrilled to notice it. “Hi, I’m Coach Wilson,” he said during player introductions prior to his team’s Read More...
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